The congressional House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has released the “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation” report.

We should all read it: It is a scathing revelation of the corruption of the Obama administration’s Department of Justice under Loretta Lynch, the FBI under Director James Comey, the corrupt Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Certainly some of the revelations are new to us. But Bill Clinton’s antics meeting Loretta Lynch on the tarmac and other irregularities during the 2016 presidential campaign were clear signals that the Clintons were waging a corrupt campaign. Candidate Trump knew it. He referred to his opponent as “Lying Hillary.” These direct accusations, apparently, were distasteful to Senator Dean Heller, who was not able to distill the truth from the Clintons’ antics and could not differentiate candidate Trump from candidate Clinton, endorsing neither.

What do we citizens take from this? There are two important facts for us to consider.

First, Senator Heller is up for re-election and is, with the support of Mitch McConnell and the Washington establishment, driving hard to cover his equivocation on candidate Trump and his voting record since President Trump took office. After President Trump finished his State of the Union message, Senator Heller appeared to be posturing — indeed posing — with a clown-faced grin, in an effort to align himself with the president. My impression was that the president was having none of it and ignored Senator Heller. I was embarrassed for Senator Heller and for us, his constituents. (There is a worthy candidate, Danny Tarkanian, opposing Senator Heller in the Republican Primary in June, and he deserves our support.)

The second fact, and perhaps the most important, is the manner in which Senator Catherine Cortez Masto is representing us, all citizens of Nevada. It was offensive to watch her and the other Democrats, including the Democrat congressmen from Nevada, sit on their hands during the State of the Union address when the president announced, among other advances, that the unemployment of blacks is the lowest it has ever been.

But the worst of it all is that the Democrats opposed telling us Americans the truth. They opposed the release of the HPSCI report illuminating DOJ and FBI abuses. We can understand differing opinions on taxes, immigration and many other issues — that is democracy. But the Democrats wanting to conceal the truth from the American people is not what democracy is about. Shame on Senator Cortez Masto and her fellow Democrats. She is not up for election now but we need to remember her attitude on truth when she is up for election four years from now.